National Healthcare Vs. Private - LBC Post

This is not a topic which lights my fire, but as it's the chosen topic for my blogging group, the LBC, I'm going to go with it.  I know it's a hot topic in many countries, particularly in the USA.  People get really emotional over this.  But I'm not one of them.

As a child and as a young woman, I lived in Ireland. As my father, the major breadwinner of our family, died when I was young, while I wouldn't exactly say our family was poor, we were not a high income family.  So the state healthcare was good enough for us.  As far as I am aware, it was fine.  Although my father died of a terminal illness, we didn't have too many health crises thoughout our family life.  So I would have found the Irish state healthcare system just fine.

At just over thirty years of age, I moved to India.  I got married and settled down here.  I've had several hospital stays, four times for my deliveries, an extra time for hypertension in pregnancy and I also suffered from hepatitis and several large and painful abscesses.  I've also had to to have some dental treatment.  I've been in private healthcare since coming to India. I had private, air conditioned (in summer)rooms  when I delivered all my babies and we are not a fabulously wealthy family.  Middle class with the usual, everyday struggles and a little more hard pressed than others might be, with a couple of kids more than the usual middle class average.

Indian doctors are excellent.  All the treatment I've had has been well within the reach of a middle class family.   I just had a tooth filled yesterday.  The entire treatment took two sessions, one when a temporary filling was inserted and the final one (yesterday) when the permanent filling went in.  The cost of the treatment in entirety was five hundred rupees. About ten Euros, or ten Dollars, depending on where you live.

In India, healthcare for everyday problems seems to be fine if you have a stable job and a reasonable income.  So that's probably the reason why I've had no major issues with healthcare.

I'm very lucky really.

This is my weekly post for the LOOSE BLOGGERS CONSORTIUM.  We are an international group of bloggers, from Ireland, the UK, the USA, China and India and we post on a single topic every week unless one of us has some sort of issue which prevents us from posting.  We are, in alphabetical order, Delirious,  Grannymar,   Maxi, MariaSF,  Padmum,  Paul, Ramana,  Rohit, Shackman, The Old Fossil and Will.  If you like this post, go and visit my friends too and check out their take on this fascinating topic!